Jon Krakauer

     Jon Krakauer was born in 1954 on April 12th. His books are mostly about outdoors or stories of other people's lives. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and he had 4 other siblings. His parent's names are Carol Ann Krakauer(Unitarian) and Lewis Joseph Krakauer(Jewish). After he was born, by the time he was two, he and his family moved to Corvallis, Oregon. When he was eight years old, he was really interested in mountain climbing. He and his dad would go climbing all the time. The schools he graduated from were Corvallis High School which he graduated from in 1972 and received an environmental degree at Hampshire College in Massachusetts in 1976. His spouse is Linda Mariam Moore. They got married in 1980 and live in Boulder, Colorado. Jon Krakauer has wrote many bestselling books like Into the Wild, Into thin Air, Under the banner of Heaven, and Where men win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. He has had a very successful life so far and is a great author.

Into The Wild

      Into the Wild is written by Jon Krakauer. It is about a boy named Christopher Johnson McCandless who live in Annandale, Virginia. Christopher was really smart. He graduated from Emory university in 1990. After graduating, he didn't talk to his family much anymore. He gave away 24,000 dollars to Oxfam which was his college fund. To unwind, he traveled across the western United states. His first stop was a stampede trail in Alaska. He arrived there on April 28, 1992. He only carried during his expedition 10 pounds of rice, a ,22 rifle, boxes of rifle rounds, a camera, and reading material. We later find out that he had a backpack with his wallet, a social security card, $300.00, identification, a map of the area and library cards. He stayed there for a while (about 119 days) until he died of starvation somewhere around August 18, 1992. On September 6, 1992, Christopher's body was found inside an abandoned bus in Alaska where he died. One year later, a man named Jon Krakauer retraced his steps during his two years between his graduation and his journey to Alaska. This was eventually made a book and recently a major motion picture.